SpaceX postponed the departure of its most current Dragon cargo ship from the International Space Station on Saturday (Jan. 22) by a minimum of a day due to bad weather condition at its landing site. You can see the next undocking attempt survive on Sunday, NASA said.The Dragon CRS-24 freight ship was scheduled to undock from the area station at 10:40 a.m. EST (1540 GMT) on Saturday and return to Earth early Monday early morning. However bad weather condition at potential splashdown locations in the Gulf of Mexico off the Florida coast avoided the departure, according to SpaceX.” SpaceX and NASA have actually waived off todays planned departure of an upgraded SpaceX Dragon resupply spacecraft due to high winds in the splashdown zones at the Gulf,” NASA spokesperson Sandra Jones stated throughout a NASA TV update Saturday.You can view SpaceXs Dragon CRS-24 spacecraft leave the spaceport station live on this page Sunday, thanks to NASA TV, starting at 10:15 a.m. EST (1515 GMT). Undocking is set up for 10:40 a.m. EST (1540 GMT), splashdown weather allowing. Related: Live updates from the International Space Station There will be no live protection of SpaceXs Dragon splashdown, though it is expected to occur either late Monday or early Tuesday, weather permitting. Updates on splashdown will come through NASAs spaceport station blog site and SpaceXs Twitter page.The Dragon freight ship will return almost 5,000 pounds (2,267 kilograms) of science to Earth when it sprinkles down, consisting of a “cytoskeleton” that utilizes cell signaling to understand how the human body changes in microgravity. A 12-year-old light imaging microscope that is being retired after more than a decade of use studying the structure of matter and plants in orbit is likewise on board.A SpaceX Dragon freight ship is seen approaching the International Space Station to provide lots of supplies together with Christmas presents and food for astronauts as part of NASAs CRS-24 cargo mission on Dec. 22, 2021. (Image credit: NASA TV) The pill was initially targeting Friday to undock and Saturday to sprinkle down, but the treatment was delayed by a day due to poor weather conditions for returning. If the Dragon had undocked Saturday morning, it would have splashdown in the wee hours of Monday, according to NASA.The Dragon spacecraft blasted off on its freight mission, called CRS-24, Dec. 21 atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and delivered both science and a set of early Christmas provides to the orbiting complicated 2 days later.Dragon is the only freight ship that can fly scientific experiments back to researchers in the world, as all other such spacecraft burn up in the environment throughout re-entry. Dragon is often utilized to carry back biological samples that should be moved to a scientific center quickly; crashing in the Atlantic Ocean will enable for rapid transfer of samples to NASAs Kennedy Space Center in seaside Florida, east of Orlando.Members of the Expedition 66 crew have actually been evacuating and organizing Dragon materials for at least the last two weeks, according to NASAs spaceport station blog, consisting of swapping out science freezer components that will host the valuable cooled science samples.Editors note: This story was upgraded to show the 24-hour weather condition hold-up for SpaceXs Dragon CRS-24 spacecraft undocking at the International Space Station.Follow Elizabeth Howell on Twitter @howellspace. Follow us on Twitter @Spacedotcom and on Facebook..
